Posts by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #B1tY4NrJpNHh39M2LY by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-03T02:22:36Z
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Lord of the Slop wants us to stop calling AI slop Slop.https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-really-wants-you-to-stop-calling-ai-slop-in-2026
(DIR) Post #B23KaF3FKeecH995Ps by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-07T20:31:55Z
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@futurebird I probably could mostly manage it. The one car trip we typically make is our drive to Costco every few weeks, or weekend trips to a park or something. I've not checked how far our bus lines go, though. It might be possible. But when we already own a low mileage car that's all paid off, the only real expense is insurance and a fill every couple months.
(DIR) Post #B27tKu9n0cRU9mT4nQ by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-09T13:19:24Z
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Here's to all the open source developers who put hours and hours of their lives into a project they built, put it out into the world, and now it sits with approximately zero users.Thank you for putting labor into the world to try and help others, even if it's never been recognized.Brag about your project here if you'd like!
(DIR) Post #B2BBrlolPqDyUzKmsy by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-11T15:24:10Z
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Seriously I'm very tired of people outside the US screaming at us to "do more" and "protest harder", and "general strike". Hundreds of thousands ARE protesting. Sometimes millions. And getting shot with rubber bullets AND real bullets. Gassed. Beaten. Arrested. It's a big fucking country. Texas ALONE is bigger than France.
(DIR) Post #B2HrWDJhr95mRDyEue by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-14T20:35:07Z
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Quote from a friend:Email signature block that says, "please consider the waste of natural resources before asking an AI to summarize this email"
(DIR) Post #B2IEK2dO2u5emGLBvk by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-15T00:59:35Z
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Not gonna lie, I quietly am a little bit judgmental towards people who take vacations to places I can't go (for simple pleasure trips not family/friends/business).
(DIR) Post #B2IEK43ekihJC1dgW0 by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-15T01:02:06Z
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I mean I still will be friends with them or whatever, but it does give me a bit of ugh when I hear where they went that I just am not safe to go.
(DIR) Post #B2KbBmBC1ipkgn6K0G by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-16T01:22:34Z
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Today I learned about a particularly vile piece of shit corp, Bright Data. Web scraping as a service. They boast about having 150 million IP addresses from residential IPs and "real user devices" (I can't imagine that it's with the user's consent) and being able to scrape petabytes. They brag about their ability to defeat captchas, turning websites into AI data. Like every possible gross thing you can think of all wrapped up in a package with a shiny website bow.
(DIR) Post #B2Nd73dcTJX6lp9f9c by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-16T17:55:40Z
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When some company demands security questionnaires be filled out for the open source product they don't pay for. And I leave it to others to politely say "sorry we don't fill those out unless you pay" because I'd just say "fuck off".
(DIR) Post #B2Nd75wTu9oDutzkpc by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-16T18:16:49Z
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@munin Sadly I'm under NDA so I can't name and shame
(DIR) Post #B2Nd78SoWurPjl8bVQ by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-16T18:19:03Z
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@munin What do you mean random open source project maintained by a single person and who has in total received $75 in donations in the last 5 years doesn't have a SOC2?
(DIR) Post #B2Nd7B0Z4P2vd0waOG by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-16T18:40:48Z
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@dr_a @munin my biases are showing, but I see even more of that sort of thing come out of compliance. Only some of which is compliance 's fault themselves. Sometimes it's the upstream auditors and regulators that are also driving this shit.
(DIR) Post #B2UgHQXhYAsQPOICxs by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-20T16:09:32Z
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You know, at this point, can we just have Skynet run things? It'd probably be less bad than whatever this bullshit is.
(DIR) Post #B2VvbVBtfd5B5T5HlI by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-21T15:38:40Z
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@futurebird I keep thinking about applying for the DC Metro, but they're 100% in office and I don't know if I can go back to that...
(DIR) Post #B2Y7Ylqyqm2Tf9gVo8 by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-22T14:37:34Z
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I do appreciate all the work the EU has done with regulatory work around data sovereignty and the DMA. But they would still be gigafucked if the US ordered Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to cut them off. They may not even have the encryption keys accessible entirely in the EU. The fact that their data physically resides in Europe don't mean shit if a US corp can kill their whole infrastructure with a single command to lock their accounts.
(DIR) Post #B2Y7Yqp2NQSJ4ZoWyO by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-22T14:39:54Z
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And even if they are running EU clouds - if the US CDNs cut them off, or black hole their DNS, or ...Basically, the US internet could recover from severing international connections. Every other country would just be fucked.
(DIR) Post #B2Y7Yvs3bcqGjOGVsG by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-22T14:58:26Z
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https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/115939298181381194God, can you imagine the chaos if all the accounting departments lost everything?
(DIR) Post #B2ZohW1Ha0GeLesacC by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-23T12:40:10Z
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@futurebird I could MAYBE see an argument to be made if it was a financial question - is it worth going 6 figures into debt to get a piece of paper you never use? But that's going to be very person specific based upon what their dreams and aspirations are. And it'd still be best to keep some sort of plan B around, be it a trade or a 2 year degree or something.
(DIR) Post #B2Zp0RqZJnGeuOtbuK by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-23T12:43:35Z
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@futurebird 100%
(DIR) Post #B2exHptIfD3B8yJyF6 by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2026-01-26T00:09:12Z
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... You listed "Sit there quietly and look smart in meetings" on your resumé?I mean, would you prefer me to open my mouth and sound like an idiot?(Apologies to Mark Twain)